The 2019 Festival will be held from April 26-28, 2019.

Peruse this site to see what happened at the 2018 Daffodil Festival!

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The last weekend of April, the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce holds their annual Daffodil Festival - a weekend of events to celebrate springtime awakening on Nantucket Island. The first occasion, a very simple affair in the 1970s, included an antique car parade in which islanders showed off their classic cars, followed by a community tailgate picnic in 'Sconset.

Now, decades later, the Daffodil Festival on Nantucket includes art shows, tours, parades (including the antique car parade and tailgate picnic), exhibitions, contests, lectures, and, of course, the annual Nantucket Daffodil Flower Show. There are activities for all ages, and faithful festival-goers dress up for the occasion and participate enthusiastically! The Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce organizes a Daffy Hat Contest, a Children's Parade featuring decorated bikes, strollers, wagons, and other self-propelled vehicles, the Antique Car Parade, a window decorating contest, the famous Sconset Tailgate Picnic, a Family Picnic at Children’s Beach, and more! The Pine Woods Morris Dancers often perform throughout the day at various locations.

The tailgate picnic in Siasconset that follows the Antique Car Parade is a favorite among everyone who attends this Nantucket festival. Picnics can be elaborately staged or simple and casual. Click here for a couple of recipes that you might want to try for your Daffodil Festival tailgate picnic.

Additional special Daffodil Festival weekend events for 2017 include Daffodil Festival brunches, parades, and more spring fun. Check our up-to-date Calendar of Events <http://nantucket.net/events> for a listing of more activities as information becomes available.

44th Annual Community Daffodil Flower Show - 2018

The 44th Community Annual Daffodil Show approved by the American Daffodil Society will be held at Bartlett's Ocean View Farm. View Program.

The 44th Annual Nantucket Community Daffodil Flower Show, sponsored by the
Nantucket Garden Club and approved by The American Daffodil Society, will be held on
Saturday, April 28 from 2 pm to 5 pm and Sunday, April 29 from 10 am to 4:30 pm at
Bartlett's Ocean View Farm, 33 Bartlett Farm Road. On Saturday, April 28 only there
will be free shuttle busses to the show from Washington Street across from The
Greenhound building starting at 1:45 pm and continuing all afternoon. The last bus will
return from the farm at 5:00 pm.

Admission to the flower show is free, but donations
will be accepted toward the Garden Club's Daffodil Planting Fund.
The entire Nantucket community is encouraged to enter the arrangement, horticulture and
photography sections of the show. A complete Daffodil Flower Show Schedule of the
flower arrangement, horticulture and photography entry classes and entry instructions is
available now at www.nantucketgardenclub.org Entry cards and printed show schedules
will be available at island florists and garden centers early April.

All exhibitors must
bring their entries to Bartlett's Farm either on Friday, April 27 between Noon and 6 pm
or Saturday, April 28 between 7 and 9:30 am. Children and first-time exhibitors are
encouraged to enter on Friday afternoon when members of the Garden Club and experts
from the American Daffodil Society will be available to answer questions and help with
entries. Anyone can enter the show with their daffodils. It's fun.

The American Daffodil
Society has a web site www.daffodilusa.org where there is a Daffseek database with
thousands of daffodil photos, to assist all exhibitors with the identification of their
entries. Last fall, the Nantucket Garden Club with the assistance of the Annie Webber,
Irene Egan and CPS middle school students classified and distributed daffodil bulbs to
Nantucket students to plant and enter in the show. All youth of the island are
encouraged to enter their daffodils, flower arrangements and photographs.

The artistic theme for this year's show is "Once Upon a Time" chaired by Jean Wagley,
Sarah Ann Miller and Bee Gonnella. The titles for arrangements are:

"Beauty and the Beast"
Mass Arrangement
A mass arrangement is a profusion of flowers of various forms and sizes
(Not to exceed 30 inches in width or depth, including accessories)

"Aladdin" Men's Arrangement (Not to exceed 30 inches in any direction, including accessories}

"Goldilocks and the Three Bears" Small Arrangement
(Not to exceed 14 inches in any direction, including accessories)

"Thumbelina" Miniature Arrangement
(Not to exceed 8 inches in any direction, including accessories)

"The Three Little Pigs" Youth Arrangement middle and high school
Adult involvement is limited to selection of plant material
(Not to exceed 30 inches in any direction, including accessories)

"Cinderella" Youth Arrangement pre-school and elementary

"Snow White" Family and Group Arrangement
(Not to exceed 30 inches in any direction)

In addition to the flower arrangements and daffodil horticulture sections of the show,
there will be a special section for Photography entries of daffodils in a landscape, a
garden setting, a flower arrangement or a natural or unusual setting. The entry classes
have been expanded this year to include both black & white photos and color
photographs as well as images that have been computer manipulated. A new class has
been added called "Cellography" for photos taken using and cellphone or Ipad.
Daffodils must be represented in some form in all photographs. Entry Classes are for
Adult either Amateur or Professional and Youth from the High School-Middle School
and Lower Schools. Complete rules are found in the Flower Show Schedule.